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Today @WHO will decide whether to declare PHIC for #Ebola DRC. Now that Ebola has crossed into Uganda, I expect WHO to declare an emergency. Here are pros and cons, but I believe that WHO must sound the global alert. The status quo is utterly unacceptable. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)30243-0/fulltext …pic.twitter.com/IhNWIkwXjx
Benefits of PHEIC: Sounds global alert mobilizing financial & human resources. Galvanizes political will, esp countries w/ expertise & capacities like US, UK, EU. It's certain that slow boil of suffering & death isn't working. And it won't work.
Deficits of PHEIC: Govts may overreact, imposing travel restrictions & screening. Govts may use scarce vaccines when unnecessary. Drawing attention to DRC could provoke rebels. Finally, IHR doesn't give WHO extra powers when it declares an emergency. It should, but doesn't.
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